[TYPES/announce] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics 20th anniversary edition (NEW DEADLINE JULY 3 2016)

[Christian RETORE]

LACL 2016 20th anniversary edition 
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
LORIA Nancy, December 5-7 2016
NEW: SUBMISSION DEADLINE JULY 3 2016
short papers (4-8 pages) and usual papers (12-16 pages)  
http://lacl.gforge.inria.fr/

PRESENTATION

LACL'2016 is the 20th anniversary of the international conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics that was launched in Nancy in 1996.  The scope of this conference is the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on logical formalisation. As 20 years ago LACL will also take place at Loria in Nancy.  

SCOPE

Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

- Logical foundation of syntactic formalisms, in particular categorial grammars and other type theoretic grammars, parsing as deduction, model theoretic syntax  
- Logical frameworks for lexical semantics; 
- Logical semantics of sentences, discourse and dialogue;  
- Applications of these logical frameworks to natural language processing tasks  (automated analysis, generation, acquisition, textual inference) 
- Applications of the logical formalisation of language faculty to cognitive sciences 

INVITED SPEAKERS

Maria ALONI (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Johan BOS (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Shalom LAPPIN (Göteborgs universitet) 
Louise McNALLY (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) 

SUBMISSIONS 

Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 

There will be two kinds of papers: 
- Regular (long) papers between 12 and 16 pages --- authors willing to submit lengthier papers should contact the committee. 
- Short papers (work in progress, position papers) between 4 and 8 pages. 

Submission is exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2016 

It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published as a volume of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Here are the links to the first and last editions so far: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052147   
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43742-1 

IMPORTANT DATES

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 3, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2016
Camera ready copies due:  September 20, 2016
Conference dates: December 5-7 2016

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE AND CONTACTS 

Christian Retoré PC chair
(Université de Montpellier, LIRMM-CNRS)
christian.retore at lirmm.fr 
Maxime Amblard, main organizer 
(Université de Lorraine,) 
maxime.amblard at loria.fr 
Philippe de Groote, publicity chair
(LORIA/INRIA, Nancy Grand Est)
philippe.degroote at loria.fr 
Sylvain Pogodalla, local chair 
(LORIA/INRIA, Nancy Grand Est)
sylvain.pogodalla at loria.fr 

Nicholas Asher (IRIT/CNRS, Toulouse)
Denis Béchet (LINA/CNRS Université de Nantes)  
Daisuke Bekki (Ochninamizu University, Tokyo) 
Raffaella Bernardi (Università di Trento)
Gemma Boleda (Università di Trento) 
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento) 
Heather Burnett (LLF/CNRS, Paris) 
Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan University)
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (Göteborg University) 
Robin Cooper (Göteborg University) 
Marcus Egg (Humboldt-universität zu Berlin) 
Annie Foret (IRISA, Université Rennes 1) 
Nissim Francez (Technion, Haifa) 
Makoto Kanazawa (NII, Tokyo)  
Greg Kobele (University of Chicago)
Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld) 
Hans Leiss (Universität München)
Robert Levine (Ohio State University) 
Zhaohui Luo (Royal Holloway College, University of London) 
Alda Mari (IJN/CNRS Paris, & University of Chicago)
Michael Moortgat (Universiteit Utrecht, UiL OTS)  
Richard Moot (LaBRI/CNRS, Bordeaux)
Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Larry Moss  (University of Indiana) 
Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications, Cupertino) 
Carl Pollard (The Ohio State University)  
Jean-Philippe Prost (LIRMM/CNRS, Université de Montpellier)
Myriam Quatrini (I2M, Aix-Marseille Université) 
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary College, University of London) 
Sergei Soloviev (IRIT, Université Toulouse III)
Stephanie Solt (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin) 
Edward Stabler (Nuance Communications, Cupertino)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Jakub Szymanik (ILLC, Universteit van Amsterdam) 
Isabelle Tellier (Lattice, Université Paris 3)
Laure Vieu (IRIT/CNRS) 
Marek Zawadowsky (University of Warsaw) 


—
Christian Retoré 
Professor, Université de Montpellier  
Leader of the Texte research group at LIRMM-CNRS
http://www.lirmm.fr/~retore